{:en}Gastone Pietrucci and La Macina, fresh winners of the Loano Lifetime Achievement Award, will celebrate their 50th anniversary at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome on September 14, on the stage of Sala Petrassi. This special, unique event will feature Rossana Casale, Lucilla Galeazzi, Giovanna Marini, and Sara Modigliani and will be preceded by an exhibition of Gastone Pietrucci's collages.
The event is produced by Carta da Musica and La Macina, in partnership with Circolo Gianni Bosio, Blogfoolk, Squilibri editore and Premio Nazionale Città di Loano.
One of the longest-running and most important folk music ensembles in Italy celebrates its 50th anniversary with an extraordinary and unpredictable event, where song mixes with the earth, music with art, roots with wings.
Celebrating La Macina will take the stage of the prestigious Sala Petrassi with some great friends and artists who at many moments in this long history have shared moments of life and art with the ensemble founded and led from the beginning with lucid and visionary madness by Gastone Pietrucci: melancholic and ardent aedo, fire and waters of song. Or as others like to call him: the Pasolini of Italian folk singing. Researcher and philosopher, performer and author. An artist who in his long career has worked for over 50 years collecting and cataloging the ancient voices, songs and tales of le Marche tutte. Thus drawing a map of memory where he places the findings. To then investigate their deep meaning, the soul and transfer it into song, that is, the specific linguistic vehicle through which that soul expresses itself and lives the story.
In the concert in Sala Petrassi these 50 years will be relived over the course of one evening, crossing emotions and stories, stories and songs, memories and discoveries. To once again recompose the extraordinary musical and cultural heritage that La Macina preserves and relaunches into the future.
Preceding this great and unique evening is the anthological exhibition of collages by Gastone Pietrucci, leader and founder of La Macina. Sublime art or an exercise in style?
It is the lost words that he searches for, so similar to the lost images, those of his collages; a labyrinth within another labyrinth, behind the singer, the aedo and the songwriter or singer himself. He takes up words through things and their mirrored and mirrored images and gives them, in a sense, a new name in the form of allegories, metaphors, anagrams, riddles, arcana, strange tarot cards. Figures of collages that latch on as if to a higher, supernatural supersignificance, but also underlying, succumbing, perturbing, enduring. In fact, it has been more than 50 years that Gastone has been making collages, pretty much like songs.
In the exhibition we will see a small selection of them, mostly devoted to the history of art reviewed by his visionary, tender, melancholy, ardent and passionate gaze.
Fifty years of activity, the publication of no less than eighteen LPs and the volume Cultura Popolare Marchigiana, surely the most extensive and organic collection of folk songs and traditions boasting in the Marche, make the La Macina Research and Folk Singing Group the only authoritative spokesman for what is the very rich heritage of Marche's oral tradition and culture.
What is the group La Macina? An ethnomusicological investigation collective that holds to its rigor in both the sense of research and performance. Those who attend their concerts will understand for themselves the discourse of La Macina: by what they say while singing, by the way they sing it, by the extreme expressiveness of the Group, which has managed to draw sap from the deepest roots of our land, making their own the modalities and rituals of the peasant civilization, which they certainly divulge with exemplary respect and love. La Macina, by the way, managed to bring into being in 1988, the Popular Traditions Center, operating not only as a conservation structure, but above all as an agent for the promotion and study of popular music and traditions
La Macina is composed of Gastone Pietrucci on vocals; Adriano Taborro on guitar, mandolin, violin and vocals (musical director); Marco Gigli on guitar, vocals; Roberto Picchio on accordion, vocals; Riccardo Andrenacci on drums, percussion; and Giorgio Cellinese on coordination.
DISCOGRAPHY
1982- Vene il sabado e vene il venere..., Preface by Michele L. Straniero Madau-MD07, lp-mc, (reissued by Felmay, cd, 1999) *Italian Record Critics' Award 1982*
1984- Io me vojo andà pel mondo scerso..., Preface by Giovanna Marini, Madau-MD015, lp-mc
1986- Once upon a time Caterina nerina baffina de'la pimpirimpina..., Preface by Gastone Venturelli , Madau-MD019, lp-mc
1988- Sailor going by water..., Preface by Enrico De Micheli , Nar-Ricordi-FLL500, lp-mc
1990- “Filandare” group of Jesi, Io vado allà filandra... (edited), MCM-Records-050-W5, lp
1993- Angelo che me l'hai ferito ‘l core..., Preface by Gualberto Gualerni, MCM-Records-050-W6, lp-mc-cd
1994- Ritual questua songs from the oral tradition of the Marche region (ed.), MCM-Records-050-W7,lp-mc-cd
1998- Je se vedea le porte dell'affanno..., Preface by Roberto Leydi, MCM-Records-050-W8, mc-cd
1999- Silence, Sing La Macina!, Preface by Massimo Raffaeli MCM-Records-050-W9, CD
2002- Marche - La Macina, Red Editions, Necklace MPI003, cd
2002- Gastone Pietrucci-Macina, Aedo melancholic and ardent, fire and waters of song (Vol. I) , Preface by Allì Caracciolo, Francesco Scarabicchi, Massimo Raffaeli , SDN024,CD with the extraordinary participation of: Rossana Casale, Giovanna Marini, Marino and Sandro Severini (Gang) Riccardo Tesi
2004- Macina-Gang, In time and beyond, singing, Preface by Massimo Raffaeli Storie di Note, SDN033,cd
2006- Gastone Pietrucci-Macina, Aedo melancholic and ardent, fire and waters of song” (Vol. 1I) - Preface by Moni Ovadia, SDN054,CD, with special guest appearances by: Moni Ovadia, Giovanna Marini, Marino and Sandro Severini (Gang) Federico Mondelci, Allì Caracciolo
2008- Giorgio Cellinese & Macina, Jemece a ffà un nap in fondo allo stagno (Book with accompanying CD) with special guest appearance by Marino and Sandro Severini (Gang), MCM-Records-050-W10
2009- Gastone Pietrucci-Macina, Bootleg Live Demo, From “Tuto è copro d'amore to “El vive d'omo.” Twenty-four lyrics by Franco Scataglini set to music and performed by La Macina, (vol.I-II), with special guest appearances by Marino Severini (Gang) and Fabio Verdini. CDM.C.MRecords 050-W1509
2010- Gastone Pietrucci-Macina, Aedo melancholic and ardent, fire and waters of song” (Vol.I1I) - with the extraordinary participation of: Banda Osiris, Marco Poeta,Marino and Sandro Severini
(Gang), Ambrogio Sparagna, Chamber Orchestra “Scuola Musicale G.B. Pergolesi” of Jesi, conducted by Maestro Stefano Campolucci. Federico Mondelci, SDN069, CD.
2013 - Gastone Pietrucci and Samuele Garofoli Quartet, Ramo de fiori, RaRa Records, PHM307 10PG
2016 - The Grindstone.In the midst of a long history, squi[books], ridges 02, CD+DVD
COMPILATIONS AND PARTICIPATIONS
1997 - Atlas of Traditional Music-Italy 2, (Night Conference), Robi Droli-RDC 5042 cd
2000 - Just Married, (The Bride's Dinner), The Pontesonoro - EDT,WM012
2000 - Ninnanni, (Good Friday Lullaby), EDT,WM016
2001 - Mucchio Extra, (Gang+Macina, Isis/Cecilia), Mucchio Extra Magazine Annex, No. 1
2001 - cantarPasqua (Angelo che me l'hai ferito ‘l core...), EDIT, S02 2001
2002 - Tribù Italiche- Marche (Macina+Gang, Sesto San Giovanni/ La filanda è ‘na galera.../ E’ ffinidi i bozzi boni...), EDT, WM022
2002 - Songs and Sounds of Italy, International Conference on Popular Music-Ponte Caffaro, 2002 (Angelo che me l'hai ferito ‘l core.../Bella sei nada femmina.../ La va giù la va giù pe’ sse contrade...)
2003 - Ciuma Salvi & Tombesi Trio, Il mare di lato- (Saltarello), CD 01A14
2003 - Genetically Modified Folk, Music and Musicians of the Modern Tradition in the Italy of McDonald's, (Bella sei nada female...)
2004 - MantuaMusicaFestival, MacinaGang, (Sesto San Giovanni), UPR-EDEL
2004 - Polyetnik Muzak, Memorabilia (The Legend of Devil's Rock), PHM040421P
2004 - Holofernes, The Words of the Wind (Giovanottino dal cappel de paja.../E me s'è ffatto lo core turchino...) Medici 1224
2005-Following Virgil-inside and outside the Cetra Quartet-AAVV- Grinding-Gang, It's a long way-I Dischi del Club Tenco/Ala Bianca Records 80 128553931-2
2006- Gang, The Seed and Hope, (Work Songs), Cia, Signs and Sounds
2007- Massimo Liberatori, Deragliamenti, (Tribute to De Andrè and Brassens - All'Asinara), Storie di Note, 2007
2008 - Duemila papaveri rossi, Le canzoni di Fabrizio de André, 2cd, Stella'nera (Amore che vieni amore che vai)
2009 - From the Deep- Latlantide-LAT 055
2009 - Giordano Dall'Armellina, European Folk Ballads, The Poisoned Man's Will (CD1), Book Time, 2009
2011 - Gang and His Brothers, When Angels Sing, To Mary, Latlantide-LAT 104
2012 - From Salento CRIFIU, The Edge of the Evening, the new record
2012 - Tre Martelli, Canté ‘r Paròli. Homage to Giovanni Rapetti, Sparks, ashes, embers, Felmay-fy 8193, 2012
2013 - Marco Sonaglia, The painter is the only one who chooses the colors...,, (The Old Man and the Child, with Massimo Privieo
2013- Giordano Dall'Armellina, Ballate euopee from Boccaccio to Bob Dylan, L'Avvelenato (CD1), Il marito giustiziere (CD2) Book Time, 2013
2013 - Folk & Peace. Songwriters Against War, (Salve Regina), Cantovivo Association, 2013
2015- Alive! Twenty years of music at the de Martino Institute, The Duck (The Grinder) Timeless Bandit (Grinder-Gang), IEdM/001
2016 - Roberto Zechini, Chitarreto, Ramo de fiori, RaRa Records,PHMI60101RZ
2016 - Sonic Affections. The first fifteen years of the Civitella Alfedena Folk Festival, Mother's Curse,CD enclosed
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